Apple did not invent any of those,
nor did it invent much else during the last
decade. That is the point. Hard to be the R&D
of a Microsoft when you produce nothing new.
I think it's time to get your rock redecorated.
IEEE 1394 or "Firewire" was invented by Apple. Please refer to the April '97 issue of IEEE Spectrum or the 1394 trade Association at <http://www.firewire.org/> (BTW: the Featured Product there is "G3 systems made with Firewire"). Apple not only invented Firewire, it also initiated the IEEE standard which led the market adoption of this technology. Apple's been OEMing IEEE 1394 link and PHY chip designs since 1994. Firewire was approved as an IEEE standard in late 1995.
And QuickTime's so good that Microsoft's tried to steal it on at least three occasions. MPEG-4 which'll be showing up in everything from networking, multimedia compression, DVD, Camcorders, wireless, broadcast, digital audio, etc. is entirely based on QuickTime.
From Dataquest:
"MPEG's decision to utilize the QuickTime file format for
the MPEG-4 specification has huge benefits for users and
the industry", said Ralph Rogers, Principal Analyst for
Multimedia at Dataquest, San Jose. "This strategy will
leverage the broad adoption of QuickTime in the professional
media space, speed the creation of MPEG-4 tools and content
while providing a common target for industry adoption."
QuickTime and FireWire are both Apple trademarks.
If you have any further questions on this subject you can contact:
Murray Slovick, (212) 705-7556 or email him at <m.slovick@ieee.org>.
Eric Anderson, (408) 974-8187 or email him at <ewa@apple.com>
Ian Bruce
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